USN-4046-1: Irssi vulnerabilities

irssi vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Ubuntu 19.04
Ubuntu 18.10
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Irssi.

Software Description

irssi – terminal based IRC client

Details

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain disconnections.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service
or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
(CVE-2018-7054)

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain requests.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service
or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-13045)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04: irssi – 1.2.0-2ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 18.10: irssi – 1.1.1-1ubuntu1.2
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: irssi – 1.0.5-1ubuntu4.2
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: irssi – 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.9

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart Irssi to make all the necessary changes.

References

Source: USN-4046-1: Irssi vulnerabilities

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